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The
gospel that teaches forensic justification ONLY, as being meritorious
toward salvation is blasphemy. This belief system totally obviates the
empowerment works of the Holy Spirit in our sanctification as being
meritorious. That is the worst type of grieving of the regenerative power
of the Holy Spirit of Christ.
God
showed this writer long ago that it was blasphemy to teach forensic
justification ONLY, as being meritorious of salvation. But now I have
proved it from Scripture. That is what is being taught by the liberal
faction of leaders in the professing Seventh-day Adventist church.
It should
be clear to all that any who teach a false gospel are anathema to God and
that all such are condemned to “everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord.”
Forensic
Justification ONLY is a False Gospel
Many SDA leaders are teaching that one is saved
by faith alone without works empowered by the Holy Spirit. We are not saved
by works of OUR OWN, lest any man should boast, but we are saved by the
meritorious, regenerative works of the Holy Spirit in and through us when
we surrender to the will of Christ. To say that such empowerment is not
meritorious is to deny the great sacrifice of Christ’s Holy Spirit at His
Incarnation, as a bequeathed gift to us for the express purpose of
overcoming sin. Ellen White called that gift the “highest good…., crowning
gift that heaven could bestow.”
"We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing
to be emptied of self. We cannot discern the character of God, OR ACCEPT CHRIST
BY FAITH, unless we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought
to the obedience of Christ. To all who do this the Holy Spirit is given
without measure. In Christ 'dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, and in Him ye are made full.'” Col. 2:9, 10, R.V." Desire of Ages, 181.
Forensic Justification ONLY, is nothing more or
less than the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God hates. We are chosen
for salvation through sanctification and belief (faith):
1Cr 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who
of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption:
1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, [even]
your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1Th 4:4 That every one of you should know how
to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway
to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be
multiplied.
The Doctrine of the Nicolaitans That God Especially Hates
Rev 2:6 But
this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which
I also hate.
Rev 2:15
So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Nicolaitans --
Doctrine of the Nicolaitans.—“The doctrine is now largely
taught that the gospel of Christ has made the law of God of no effect that
by 'believing' we are released from the necessity of being doers of the
Word. But this is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ so
unsparingly condemned.” E.G. White, The
SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 957.
"(Jude 4).--The Sin of the Nicolaitans.--Is it [our sin]
the sin of the Nicolaitans, turning the grace of God into
lasciviousness." E.G. White, SDA
Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, 957.
"In thorny ground the tender plants did not wither as
rapidly as they did in the stony ground. Similarly, the experience of
thorny-ground Christians progresses further than that of the stony-ground
hearers. They make what appears to
be a real start, and apparently they experience justification and the new
birth. But they soon become 'weary in well doing' (Gal. 6:9) and do not
'go on unto perfection' (Heb. 6:1). Absorbed by the pleasures of
this world and in the pursuit of its attractions, they neglect to weed out
from the life those tendencies and traits of character that respond to
temptation. They are like the person who had been freed from demon
possession only to be repossessed by seven evil spirits (see on Matt.
12:43-45). Many of the things that attract the thorny-ground hearers and
absorb their attention may not, in and of themselves, be harmful. But such
persons become so absorbed in this world that they have no time to prepare
for the next." SDA Bible
Commentary, Vol. 5, 405.
Thorns are defined by the SDA Bible Commentary as those who
teach justification without sanctification, which is the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans.
Doctrine of the Nicolaitans.—“The doctrine is now largely
taught that the gospel of Christ has made the law of God of no effect that
by 'believing' we are released from the necessity of being doers of the
Word. But this is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ so
unsparingly condemned." E.G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 957.
"(Jude 4).--The Sin of the Nicolaitans.—“Is it [our sin] the
sin of the Nicolaitans, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness."
E.G. White, SDA Bible Commentary,
Vol. 7, 957.
It is the
Thorns Who Believe That Justification ONLY is the Sum and Substance of
Religion
"Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it impossible
for the wheat to mature (see Luke 8:14). In the same way secular
interests prevent the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) from reaching
maturity. Religion is relegated to the subordinate position of being only
one interest among many. For lack of cultivation it withers and eventually
dies. That which the thorny-ground hearers lack is a moral transformation
(E.G. White, Christ's Object Lessons,
p. 50). To them,
justification is the sum and substance of religion, and they fail to
realize that the Christian life consists essentially in the process known
as sanctification--the process by which evil traits and tendencies are
replaced by the perfect life-pattern of Jesus Christ." Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary,
Vol. 5, 405.
This is precisely what New Movement Seventh-day Adventists (Selected Messages, Vol. 1, 204-205),
teach. Some teach a variation on the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans, saying
that good works are the result of justification, but are not meritorious,
even when empowered by the Holy Spirit. That is the part of the Doctrine of
the Nicolaitans that is so grievous to the Holy Spirit—that His works in
and through us play no part AS FAR AS MERIT IS CONCERNED, in our salvation.
That is a lie. That denigrates the power and person of the Holy Spirit.
What Paul really meant when he said that we are not saved by
works lest any man should boast, is OUR OWN WORKS. However, when we surrender our wills to
Christ and His Holy Spirit works His good will in and through us, those
works are meritorious toward salvation because they are His, lest any man
should boast. And if this is not true, then Paul becomes the greatest of
self-contradictors in the bible, for he also wrote the quote I included
concerning sanctification and belief, as well as the following verse:
Rom 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers
of the law shall be justified.
James agreed with Paul:
Jam 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves.
Gnostic—Gnosticism
"The earliest extra-Biblical Christian writer to mention
this party is Irenaeus (c. A.D. 185), who identifies the Nicolaitans as a
Gnostic sect...
There is evidence also of a Gnostic sect in the 3d cent. A.D.
bearing the name 'Nicolaitans.'
"...The doctrine of the Nicolaitans appears to have been a
form of antinomianism (see SDACom 7:957). Nicolaitans of the 2d cent. seem
to have continued and extended the views of the 1st-cent. adherents,
holding to the freedom of the flesh, and teaching that the deeds of the
flesh had no effect upon the health of the soul and consequently no
relation to salvation." SDA
Bible Dictionary, Vol. 8 of the Commentaries, p. 770, 771.
"No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and
obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those
things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known
duty....As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and
co-operates with God, he works out in the life what God WORKS IN by the
Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the
practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that
crucified the Lord of life and glory....It is by continual surrender of the
will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is
retained." E.G. White, Selected
Messages, Bk. 1, pp. 396-397.
"The intercession of Christ in man's behalf in the
sanctuary above is as essential to the plan of salvation as was His death
upon the cross. By His death He began that work which after His
resurrection He ascended to complete in heaven. We must by faith enter
within the veil, 'whither the forerunner is for us entered.' Hebrews
6:20:" E.G. White, The Great
Controversy, 1911 edition, p. 489.
Something that is "as essential" to His death on the
cross, and completed in heaven, would not constitute a completement of the
Atonement on the cross. What was completed was the sacrificial act. Christ
is now pleading His blood for our sins and giving His Divine Nature Holy
Spirit power to overcome those sins to those who desire such. This work is
denied by many SDA General Conference leaders who are teaching a false
gospel. This work is denied by those who believe in justification only
without sanctification.
On the typical Day of Atonement, which we are in, all sin was
to be searched out and put out of the camp. No "benefits" accrued
to anyone who would not make this search. In fact, it was ruled that anyone
who would not conduct such a thorough search and remove sin from his life
were put out of the camp. Thy way, O Lord, is in thy Sanctuary.
The only "benefits" that the Atonement COMPLETED ON
THE CROSS could offer would be justification for sins past, and that is
what New Theology Adventism teaches. However, the on-going Atonement work
is for the eradication of sin in the life, in the antitypical Day of
Atonement, for the purpose of cleansing the Sanctuary of all sin, past,
present, and future. That objective has not yet been achieved or completed.
That is a power benefit for which God's people have not as yet
sufficiently aspired to nor desired. One great reason it has not been
aspired to and desired, is because of the teaching of the false gospel
which teaches that overcoming sin this side of glorification is not
necessary and/or IS NOT MERITORIOUS TOWARD SALVATION—JUSTIFICATION, EVEN
WHEN EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, and this is anti everything the
Atonement was designed to achieve, as proven by the typical Sanctuary
Service. Just remember that in the Sanctuary Service, on the typical Day of
Atonement, all sin had to be searched out and put out of the camp and if
any man failed to do so, he was banned from the camp. That was tantamount
to being banned from heaven. That is the requirement, the condition of
sanctification, as taught by the Sanctuary type.
Conclusions:
· The
professing Seventh-day Adventist church militant is going to be brought
down to hell in another literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9, because of
teaching two different gospels to the world, for any other gospel is
anathema to God.
· The false
gospel taught by the professing SDA church militant is the Doctrine of the
Nicolaitans or a cunning variation on the theme.
· Ellen
White said that Adventist ministers should teach the same thing North,
South, East and West. Jesus would not have taught two different gospels.
Ellen White would not have taught two different gospels.
· It is a
New Movement led be Satan himself, that teaches two different gospels. That
apostate act ALONE, is sufficient to remove God, (1SM 205), and make all
members who KNOWINGLYsupport such, guilty of unpardonable sin and they will
be condemned to “everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord.”
· Because the SDA church is organized under a
hierarchical system, rather than a congregationalist
order, whereby each church is responsible only to itself, the SDA church is
a corporate body with corporate responsibility whereby the members are
responsible for what their leaders teach because they elect them and
because the tithe goes into a general pool to support all the ministry. In
a Congregationalist system, each church pays the keep of its own pastor
only.
· Ellen White said that the SDA church is a
theocracy like Israel, and that each member is responsible for the KNOWN
sins in the camp: "The
plain straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will
rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of
their sins. God holds His people, as a body [corporately] responsible for
the sins existing in individuals among them." Testimonies, Vol. 3, p. 269. Corporate responsibility:
"For evils that we might have checked, we are just as responsible as
if we were guilty." Desire of
Ages, p. 44. "We are just as responsible for evils that we might
have checked in others by exercise of parental or pastoral authority as if
the acts had been our own." Patriarchs
Prophets, 578.2
· Every
supporting member of the church is corporately responsible for the anathema
act of the church teaching two different gospels with one of them being a
false gospel. This is why separation from any false teaching body was ever
required. One is responsible for what one supports.
· "Most startling messages will be borne by
men of God's appointment, messages of a character to WARN the people, to
AROUSE them. And while some will be PROVOKED by the warning, and led to
RESIST LIGHT AND EVIDENCE, we are to see from this that we are giving the
TESTING MESSAGE FOR THIS TIME. Messages will be given OUT OF THE USUAL
ORDER." Testimonies, Vol. 9,
p. 137.
You
have just been privy to one of those “most startling messages.” Your
eternal life will depend upon your correct response. Why do SDA leaders not
see what you have just read? Because of Isaiah 56:10-12, and Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 211.
God bless all who love and honor the truth,
Ron Beaulieu
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